James Thellusson is the author of “School’s Out: Truants, Troublemakers and Teachers’ Pets.” Charles Dickens despised the Victorian legal system. In “Bleak House,” he invented the epic ...

Katherine Ashenburg has been a voracious reader since she was a child — and a nonfiction writer and editor for most of her career. She published her first fiction book at 72 years old, Sofie & Cecilia ...

"The Dying Art of Life" by shoeless is a warm and engaging historical novel that immerses readers in a cross-genre experience ...

The best fantasy books of June include epic sagas, swoony romantasies, and stories that reimagine history (with a magical ...

David Beckham, the former England soccer captain who has been an ambassador for the U.N. children’s fund, is to receive a knighthood in next week’s honors list from King Charles III, according ...

NEW light has been shed on Charmouth in Regency times during the golden age of coach travel. The west Dorset village recently played host to Diana Faust from Los Angeles who discovered that her ...

Once the backdrop for a Dickensian scandal, this Harley Street mansion spans five floors and comes complete with a swimming ...

The UK's 'underrated' town that inspired 1 of the world's most famous novelists The author, who wrote 15 novels and hundreds of short stories, was a frequent visitor to the town.

1. Charles Dickens was forced to work at a young age. The eldest son of Elizabeth and John Dickens was born in February 1812 on Portsea Island in the British city of Portsmouth, and moved around ...

Here’s something: Charles Dickens never mentions a London railway station by name in any of his 15 novels (nor in the other books I read). I think I’m the first person to discover this.

Charles Dickens Wader was an artist who was born in 1849. How much does a Charles Dickens Wader cost? The artist's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from ...

This house has seen the best of times — and the worst of times. A stately London mansion tied to one of Charles Dickens’ most infamous fictional financiers has hit the market with a roughly ...